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<P class="title"><A NAME="HELPSwS"></A>Switch <B>-S</B>  -  create
solid archive<hr></P>

<P>Solid is a special archive type. <A HREF="HELPArcSolid.htm">Solid
archiving</A> significantly improves the compression ratio at the cost
of archive update speed. This switch is meaningful only when creating
a new <A HREF="HELPRARVersusZIP.htm">RAR archive</A>.</P>

<P>Shell mode equivalent of this switch is the "Create solid archive"
option in <A HREF="HELPGetArcName.htm">Archive name and parameters
dialog</A>.</P>

<h1><B>Example</B></h1>

<P>add all *.c and *.h files from the current folder to the solid
archive <I>Sources</I></P>

<p class="sample">WinRAR a -s Sources *.c *.h</p>

<P>Please refer to the <A HREF="HELPArcSolid.htm"><B>Solid archives</B>
</A> chapter for further information.</P>

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